SERVICE / 03 — ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Books that close
clean, and on time.

Late, messy books make every other finance decision late and messy. We run the monthly close, receivables, payables, payroll coordination and cash — and hand the numbers to the CFO and FP&A work on a fixed day each month, so the forecast, the board pack and the bank all read from the same ledger.

§ 01 — THE MONTHLY RHYTHM

One close,
four outputs.

The close is not the goal. The goal is what leaves the close: a reconciled ledger, a management report someone reads, a cash view that matches the bank, and a file an auditor can open.

Each month
Reconciled ledger
Bank, AR, AP, payroll and revenue reconciled. Accruals booked. No plugs.
Each month
Management report
P&L, balance sheet and cash vs budget and prior, with commentary.
Each week
Cash view
13-week cash forecast refreshed against the bank account, not the books.
Each quarter
Audit-ready file
Support for every balance, filed as you go. No year-end scramble.
§ 02 — SCOPE

Six things we run
so you don't have to.

Engaged on their own or as the base layer of a full finance function. Every piece has an owner, a due date and a definition of done.

01

Monthly Close

Reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, revenue. Closed on a calendar you can plan around, with a checklist your team can see.

02

Receivables & Payables

Invoices out on time and chased on a schedule. Bills approved, coded and paid on terms. Ageing reports that someone actually reads.

03

Cash Management

Daily cash position, weekly 13-week forecast, payment runs sized against it. Cash decisions made before they become urgent.

04

Payroll Coordination

Inputs, approvals and postings handled with your payroll provider in each country you employ people. Reconciled to the ledger every month.

05

Management Reporting & KPIs

Financials vs budget and prior, the KPIs that matter, variance commentary. Same format every month, so trends are visible and surprises are early.

06

Audit-Ready Books

Documented support for every balance. A clean chart of accounts. Books an auditor, investor or acquirer can walk through without a translator.

§ 03 — THE HAND-OFF

Where the numbers
go next.

Accounting is the base of the stack, not the whole stack. Clean books on a fixed day are what make the strategic work possible — and what make it fast.

→ FRACTIONAL CFO

Cash, runway, capital

The reconciled cash position and the 13-week forecast feed runway planning, fundraising prep and the capital plan. No re-keying, no second set of numbers.

Fractional CFO ↗
→ FP&A

Model, budget, reforecast

Actuals flow into the driver-based model on close day. Variance analysis starts the same week, not the same quarter, and the reforecast is built on numbers that tie.

FP&A Consulting ↗
→ BOARD REPORTING

Pack, cadence, commentary

The management report becomes the board pack. Same numbers, same definitions, narrated for directors and investors instead of for the ledger.

Board Reporting ↗
§ — WHO THIS IS FOR

Three situations
where it fits.

Founder-led companies under $20M revenue — SaaS, e-commerce, professional services and other SMBs — that have outgrown the way the books are being kept today.

01 · FOUNDER-LED
Founders still doing the books between everything else
Bookkeeping is the first piece of finance to delegate. Get it out of your head, and your judgement on the harder questions improves.
02 · BOOKKEEPER-ONLY
Companies past their first $1M with an external bookkeeper and no finance brain
The books exist. The management report, the cash forecast and the controls do not. We add them on top of what already works.
03 · PRE-AUDIT, PRE-RAISE
Teams heading into a first audit, a funding round or a sale
Books an auditor or investor can walk through. Built now, on a calendar — not assembled under pressure in diligence.
§ — FAQ

Three questions
we hear first.

If yours is not here, book a 30-minute intro call and we will talk it through.

Not necessarily. Many engagements keep the existing bookkeeper or local accountant for transaction processing and statutory filings, and we run the close, the controls, the reporting and the cash on top. Where there is nobody, we bring the capacity. Either way, one person owns the close calendar.

It depends on where you start. The first month is a baseline: we time the close end to end and find the three biggest delays. Then we compress it — pre-close checklist, parallel reconciliations, fixed cut-offs — and publish a close calendar so everyone knows the day the numbers land. Close speed is a learnable craft, not an effort problem.

The ones you already run. Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite and Sage Intacct on the ledger; Stripe, Chargebee, Maxio and Recurly for billing; your payroll provider in each country you employ people. We do not make you migrate to start. If a system change is needed, it comes out of the diagnostic, with a reason attached.

Bring us your
last close. We'll tell you when the next one lands.

Talk about your close